The tournament allowed teams to hire foreign players or imports with unlimited height limit.

The PBA previously skipped the 2024 edition of the Asian continental club tournament.

[2] NorthPort has the twice-to-beat advantage; they have to be beaten twice, while their opponents just once, to advance.

Highlighted are the imports who stayed with their respective teams for the whole conference.

Guest team Eastern is also subjected to the same rules with the PBA making it choose between Cameron Clark or Chris McLaughlin as its designated import player,[4] although it also has other players born outside Hong Kong in its PBA roster.